Africa’s Stunning Victory Against the International Criminal Court, By Owei Lakemfa
It was a sweet victory against the neo-colonial powers who tried to humiliate the continent by hurling an African president on trumped up charges of murder, rape, inhumane acts, and persecution. But the painful aspect is that an innocent man was abducted in his country, imprisoned without trial for five…
Why My Mission To the U.S. Matters, By Atiku Abubakar
...I am certain that if I am successful in to the world, the world will come to Nigeria for business. That is why I am in America. Because I believe in JOBS - Jobs, Opportunity, Being United and Security and it is time Nigeria and all Nigerians finally have the…
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Prosecuting Onnoghen: An Issue Best Settled After the General Polls, By Rafiq Raji
Clearly, it is hard to justify any benefit to the polity from attempting to remove the most senior judicial officer in the land, who would be a key adjudicator in election disputes, just a month to the polls. In fact, the action has the potential of heightening regional tensions. In…
Will They Not Use Their Minds, Intellect and Reason To Understand?, By Murtadha Gusau
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. He guides His obedient servants to His love and admits the doers of good to His Paradise. I bear witness that there is no deity save Allah, having…
The Ethnic Victory of 2015 and An Apology, By Moses E. Ochonu
...Buhari’s ethnic coalition got away with arguably the biggest political scam in Nigeria’s history, managing to recruit many unsuspecting Nigerians into what they knew to be an ethnic agenda to capture power. It is now quite clear that what happened in Nigeria in 2015 was not a revolution but a…
CJN Walter Onnoghen and the Reputation of the Judiciary, By Jibrin Ibrahim
The chief justice of Nigeria must respond to the present crisis around his person and the judiciary in a way that would save the institution. He must explain to Nigerians the sources and legitimacy of the huge amounts of money in his accounts and his properties. Sometimes, only poets can…
A Double Standard Integrity and the Buhari Legacy, By Akin Fadeyi
And for the usual towncriers who will always cry than the bereaved, something is not right when we adopt coloured standards just so we can protect and hail our political idols. President Buhari is a human who can hit a miss and score low on occasional blunders. It is our…
Treating the #GEOBill With the Urgency It Deserves, By Chioma Agwuegbo
How does a nation that purports to uphold the Constitution thrive in the absence of the full actualisation of the International Covenants of Human Rights enshrined in that same Constitution? Instead, it whips up the National Gender Policy, which in itself is a decent collation of the national and international…
The Porting Season, By Ose Oyamendan
What continually gives me the fever is that old trick that gets dusted every election circle. Once, they called it 'carpet-crossing'. But, since the floor of the homes of our Lords and Dames are covered in marble these days, they simply call it decamping. A phone call, a press release…
Why the Nigerian Economy Will Do Better Under Atiku, By Ilyasu Ibrahim
...the Buhari administration, it seems, is as clueless as it is confused with regards to economic policy in general. This is evident in the way they make an economic policy today and reverse it later. The problem with that kind of approach is that the experimentation method the government uses…
